thermite.au
I create tech solutions that nearly always mostly work
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Some people stay relevant right to the end, most dont though. Idealy, there wouldn't be a need for bias towards either end of the age spectrum, but it doesn't pan out that way. In a world of aging populations, those least invested in the future, those least adaptable, have the greatest influence.
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And they still believe this. They still fear a tyrannical government. You've made the mistake of thinking you, and they, agree on what a tyrant is. They want guns because they fear YOUR government. They fear your tyrant. Theirs is just fine.
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As for laws, society should not make laws for those aging out, nor pander to their feelings. Those people won't be here to suffer the laws. Pass laws for your children and grandchildren. They are the ones who will have to find a gendered bathroom; long after elder generations are dead.
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Mental flexibility, the ability to challenge your own thoughts, learn, become something new. These are core to being a human being. Once you don't have that, you're just an animal and dead weight. Sadly, most people can't see they have outlived their use-by-date.
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The technology industry has always cannibalised its own. AI is simply accelerating the process. Unfortunately, it's come at a time when we have pushed a lot of people into the industry with expectations of a long career. This impact will get a lot worse, and those jobs are never coming back.
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This article can be summed up with "im getting old and the world has moved past me, waaaaaaaah ðŸ˜"
Either adapt, or fuck off. Old people feeling butt hurt and unable to adapt to change has caused more than enough suffering already
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Reading through articles used to be a whole lot slower, though
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Regardless of his killer being motivated by Jonathan being gay or having mental health issues, who the fuck thinks like this?
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People are so horrible. Saw this comment by a neighbour in a news article;
"I'm so sad it had to come to this," she said. "We all knew it was going to end up like this because of his antics. It's sad cause this could have been prevented if he had gotten the help he needed."
What the actual fuck
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At least the LLM can write fucking unit tests. I'll take LLM "slop" with unit tests over testless, human code any day.
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The only difference between vibe coding and most code out there is the speed of development. The majority of software solutions are a security nightmare and that's with trained developers. Vibe just let's product owners cut out the middleman (developer).
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AI that cites, is trying to back up its prediction by citing evidence. The problem being, the search results dont match. But it can't dismiss them because search is the product and they are selling the ads. It creates an obvious disconnect. Just like this example.
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It's typically far more accurate and reliable but can make mistakes.
AI search problem: there's two kinds. One summarises search results, and the other uses search to veryify/cite.
If the search results are lies, it summarises lies. Its just speeding up the process of you reading pages of bullshit
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Search indexes react to occurrence, relevance and popularity. At best you could say that search relies on humans establishing factuality via popularity. Which sadly doesn't work.
AI problem: it is fed the entire internet, which is filled with lies. So they try to bias towards reliable sources.
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It's an interesting problem, and not an easy one to fix.
The facts: apples dont contain lycopene.
The bullshit: health sites say it does because of red apples. They are selling the antioxidants story.
The search problem: search indexing does nothing to deal with the accuracy of data.
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Would it make any difference if they did?
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This article is a pile of garbage. Not only is it morally bankrupt and lacking logical reasoning, but it still wouldn't win votes. Do a find and replace of trans with black, and you'll see how stupid this article is.
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I'm not sure we should expect anything different, considering male humans are the apex predators on the planet.
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The number sounds impressive, but it isn't. Crops have a standard rate of .1mg per kg. That's 99900% higher than the allowed level in drinking water. Tea leaves have a conderably higher rate, and people happily drink that daily.
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This fine is less than 5% of their liquidity. They had revenue of over £2.5B last year.
They couldn't give one fuck about a £150M fine.
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No, the failure rates is about the same, but the launch rate is higher. Particularly by the US. In 1975 the US made 30 orbital launches, in 2024, they made 158.
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I love that game 😀 Your image is a perfect match for the vibe.
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They are not assessing anything. They know exactly how to achieve this, and its what they are already pushing.
- Remove access to contraception
- Remove access to abortion
They don't care how miserable the parents and children are. Just that they exist.
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Everyone knows how and its not technically difficult. It generally fails for three reasons.
The product team / company just doesn't give a fuck.
Older stakeholders that insist on doing desktop first/only.
Sites that just don't work well on mobiles. Things like large or complex tables, forms.
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The family actively enabled and funded an anti LGBTQ institution. The school always hated lesbians, their religion always hated lesbians.
Now, she is upset because that hate impacts her personally?
Get fucked.
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This is a misleading statement. They did not take her diploma, they had threatened to take her diploma.
Regardless, I have zero sympathy. Her parents willingly sent her to a private Christian school, and she happily went.
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They either directly or indirectly kill them.
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Lol, i wish democrats had half the energy of this post.
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Look, AI has its issues, but i did parent teacher night at my kids' private school, and childcare is one of their best features. Low drug use and violence, average standards. Teachers are meh, but get the job done. The bar for AI is already very low.
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Kids will spend far more time on gaming than tiktok. Snapchat gets attention, but discord is invisible.
All of which have no age verification enforcement beyond a ticket box/entered age. So how are you going g to enforce a curfew? Just for the honest kids that gave a real age?
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This is a pile of word salad and political outrage for points. These things would be a lot more interesting if it came with actual details on how they would implement these things. They also focus on popular talk g points like social media and ignore things like gaming.
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Tax requirements force the data to be gathered, but that doesn't excuse the shit site design. Build the ui to minimise friction. Address search and fill would be a good start.
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What commitments have they announced as a party, to reverse the funding cuts, restore jobs, shift agencies back to sane science-based policies, restore women's rights, and protect minorities?
Don't assume they will. Outrage is cheap; repairing the Trump damage will be very fucking expensive.
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Of course it's incredibly difficult to get something like this changed, even if the democrats wanted to, but not impossible. But they won't even try, it's not in their interest.
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If neither the Democrats or Republicans want to fix a broken system, then you're just fucked. Neither the elected officials nor their sycophants will ever be accountable, and the people who elected them will be subject to a revolving door of party self-interest.
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If US politics is to improve, that kind bullshit has to end. Nominees, for instance, should automarically fail if they answer this way.
The problem is neither side wants to change it. They don't want to be the next person compelled to answer or not lie. So Democrats won't fix this.
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This is not a Trump created problem, though he is using it to his advantage. It's been there for a long time. People who answer these question do so because they want to, not through any fear of refusing. If it helps them, they will answer. Otherwise, they just lie / obfuscate.
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He sat there and flat refused to answer a simple question by ‪@markey.senate.gov‬. This is someone wanting to be head of NASA, but before even being confirmed, shows he doesn't give a fuck about a congressman or a hearing process.
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This has always been the case. The malware issues are baked in and can't be fixed because Microsoft needs backwards compatibility. There are decades of legacy business apps that just won't die, and MS knows cutting them off cuts sales. Apple doesn't have to support enterprise so gets it easier.
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Unregulated companies often have these sorts of security risks. They provide staff with too much access in an attempt to keep operating costs down. It exposes customer data and there is often little oversight or alerting of it happening.
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You can't get rid of cancer, by asking it to not be cancerous. You have to cut it out, or kill it.
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By following the standard political practices, you are wasting your time and playing into their hands. Every time a video like this is shown, Democrats are shown to be powerless. That video was a political equivalent of "Eric, you can go fuck yourself"
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When you have a non-democratic power at play in your democracy, it is pointless to continue being democratic. You can't shame these people into resigning. You can't force changes in behaviour by damaging their polling numbers. They don't care about these things. They are not running for re/election.
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Kristi Noem isn't participating in a democratic, accountable process. She is simply ignoring it, with Trumps support. Eric Swalwell can repeat the question until the sun dies, she will simply ignore it. There is nothing he or this committee can do about it.